--- title: The solar system and the planets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The solar system and the planets», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The solar system is the Sun and everything that goes around it: eight planets, their moons, dwarf planets such as Pluto, asteroids and come --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / The solar system and the planets # The solar system and the planets Lesson 4 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/4-the-solar-system/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/0/) — The solar system is the Sun and everything that goes around it: eight planets, their moons, dwarf planets such as Pluto, asteroids and comets. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/1/) — In order from the Sun the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune: a way to remember them is «My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/2/) — The four inner planets are small and made of rock; the four outer planets are giants made mostly of gas or ice, with no solid ground to stand on. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/3/) — The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer its year: Mercury goes around in 88 days, but Neptune needs about 165 of our years. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/4/) — If the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away, and Neptune would be about three quarters of a kilometre away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/5/) — The solar system is the Sun and everything that moves around it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/6/) — There are eight planets in the solar system. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/7/) — Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/8/) — Neptune is the planet farthest from the Sun. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/9/) — Jupiter is the biggest planet. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/10/) — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are small rocky planets. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/11/) — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are giant planets with no solid surface. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/13/) — Saturn has the brightest rings, made of pieces of ice and rock. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/14/) — Mars looks red because its dust contains rust. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/15/) — Pluto is a dwarf planet, not one of the eight planets: it is small, and many other small icy worlds like it go around the Sun far out beyond Neptune. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/16/) — The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer it takes to go around it. - ← previous: [The Moon and its phases](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/3-the-moon-and-its-phases/) - next →: [The Sun as a star and the stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)